Treatment activity:
During this period, the UP2 800 and UP3 plants treated 26.7 tons of spent fuel assemblies.
From all treated assemblies, a total of 145 tons have been processed to date this year.
During this period, 15 canisters of vitrified fission products have been produced(1) in R7 and 12 in T7, vitrification facilities.
Since the beginning of the year, 98 canisters have been produced.
The facility of hulls compaction (ACC) produced 5 canisters of compacted residues.
Since the beginning of the year, 136 canisters have been produced.
The actuality, it is also...
...on February 11th, 2005 it was the first reception of spent fuel from the Swiss nuclear power plant.This shipment was formed of two casks contained 24 spent fuel from the Swiss nuclear power plant of Gösgen.
Ten years after the first, on February 17th, a shipment of 5 casks containing 124 canisters of japan vitrified residues leaved Cherbourg.
On February 17th also, four casks of spent fuel from the German nuclear power plant of Stade arrived at the Valognes railway terminal serving COGEMA La Hague, at 12:54 pm.
(1)The fission products (ultimate residues of spent fuel) are incorporated in heated glass to approximately 1100°C. The whole is poured in stainless steel containers. The fission products are an integral part of stable, compact and resistant glass. This process is called vitrification.